The previous commit spliced the DATA INVENTORY manifest into the tool-mode
authoritative payload set unconditionally. That made the payload set
non-empty on a turn where the model answered WITHOUT calling any tool
(empty tool results), which flipped the verifier from dormant to active —
grading the reply against an inventory that carries per-domain sample counts
only, never the snapshot's pre-computed averages. A figure the model
correctly narrated from the snapshot (a 30-day systolic average) was then
stripped to "[unverified]" — the exact false positive this work exists to
prevent, and a regression from main's "no tool figures this turn → skip,
prompt-level grounding is the backstop" contract.
The inventory must only WIDEN an already-active authoritative set, never
ACTIVATE it on its own. Gate activation on a real present figure block
(a pinned workout-evidence block or a present tool result) exactly as main
did; when active, the inventory counts still join the set so a plain count
restatement stays grounded.
Adds a route-level regression test (fast suite) proving the verifier stays
dormant when no tool returned figures, plus companion unit tests documenting
that a real tool section grounds the average while a counts-only inventory
does not.
Marc-André Bombeck
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